Preferred server OS?

Trying to decide between Debian and Fedora, leaning towards Debian at the moment. What's your preference for server OS?

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Whoops I meant distro not OS.

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016
2012 R2 is also okay, but nano server is awesome

Linux always. I don't consider Windows "Server" 2016 to be a server OS. It's pretty much just an optimized Windows 10 with some extra features.
Probably CentOS or Debian depending on whether or not the server is accessible from the WAN.

Windows Server 2008 R2

Why are you still stuck on that?

Its the domain controller at my organization

Oh. That makes sense.

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i just use ubungu

In choosing between only those two - debian. If you need rhel for free just use centos, fedora is redhat playground for free alpha/beta testing.

So windows is not an option then...

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>tfw used license to learn how to administer a Windows domain among other things

I don't know if "useless" is the correct word

"your education or teaching, non-commercial research"
Is that your education? Nope. I can't think of a single uni offering "system administration".
Is that teaching? Nope, you're a student.
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For a server I'd say the choice should be

Debian or CentOS

and my personal preference is CentOS but that is, quite frankly, more of a habit than a logical and well-reasoned choice since I've used it as my primary server-OS for a decade.

Fedora is an alternative if you have your server locally and you can take some or a lot of downtime. If you're talking about some personal home NAS server or something like that then it's probably a better choice than CentOS.

Oh

pretty useful to me desu

Windows is never an option.

>"""""Self-learning"""""

Ubuntu because Debian's kernel is old as fuck and doesn't support SMT with ryzen.

centos, because i don't really have a choice.

Install Gentoo

>Probably CentOS or Debian depending on whether or not the server is accessible from the WAN.

Which one when?

FreeBSD

It's not a server OS unless you can install it without GUI

What if I don't touch the mouse and tab around?

CentOS for a server as it mirrors RHEL. Fedora is the beta test line.
Else, Ubuntu LTS would be a top choice.

I still run SBS 2003

Debian for a private server kind of thing. ignore people talking about outdated packages and kernels, they have obviously never heard of jessie-backports.

Temple OS

Nobody uses Fedora for servers.
I would suggest you to wait for the next stable release of Debian in a few weeks and go with it. I am using Debian right now.
Some people I know use Nix, Void, CentOS and Guix for servers.

OpenBSD or FreeBSD